Does anybody see this song in kind of a political way? I was listening to it one day and it struck me that it could be talking to the president in the voice of a soldier. I hate political songs like no other, but if this one is, it does it well.
I'm not sure why I think of it like this, just a few lines stick out at me.
"All the fear and all the cares of the world never forced themselves into my arms" Talking about, I think, how a soldier chooses to enlist, chooses to fight, chooses to die for his country, that he's not forced into it.
"It was your fear that helped me, fear that got me to move" The president's fear of nuclear weaponry and terrorism that got the soldier speaking to enlist in the army.
"Straight from you heart into their sight" The president's desire to get Saddam went right from his heart to what everyone wanted, including soldiers who had to go over their to physically do it
I think it tells how at first everyone was for the war and for invading Iraq to save the world from evil. But slowly, people started to realize the war for the mass stupidity it was ("There was a constant slip out of the positive")
The second verse goes into this more, how people are starting to be against it, to see that it was the wrong move to make, and how the pres. keeps shipping more and more people over there to die "(You killed more precious lives than you had let live,")
The bridge, I think, is talking to the president directly. "For shame on you, who cares about me anyway?" (Who cares about the life of one soldier in the scheme of things, certainly not the president who only wants MORE people)
"I don't mind you" probably meaning the soldier doesn't personally dislike the president, just what he's doing
"It'd mean so much if you'd just save me, save me" In other words, get me the holy hell out of here before I die.
I dunno if anyone else sees this or not, but once I've seen it I can't unsee it, so it's the meaning I'm stuck with. I don't know if it fits perfectly, but it makes sense to me.
I'm not using this as an excuse to go into a politcal rant either, this is just what I honestly swear to god this song says to me.
Does anybody see this song in kind of a political way? I was listening to it one day and it struck me that it could be talking to the president in the voice of a soldier. I hate political songs like no other, but if this one is, it does it well.
I'm not sure why I think of it like this, just a few lines stick out at me.
"All the fear and all the cares of the world never forced themselves into my arms" Talking about, I think, how a soldier chooses to enlist, chooses to fight, chooses to die for his country, that he's not forced into it.
"It was your fear that helped me, fear that got me to move" The president's fear of nuclear weaponry and terrorism that got the soldier speaking to enlist in the army.
"Straight from you heart into their sight" The president's desire to get Saddam went right from his heart to what everyone wanted, including soldiers who had to go over their to physically do it
I think it tells how at first everyone was for the war and for invading Iraq to save the world from evil. But slowly, people started to realize the war for the mass stupidity it was ("There was a constant slip out of the positive")
The second verse goes into this more, how people are starting to be against it, to see that it was the wrong move to make, and how the pres. keeps shipping more and more people over there to die "(You killed more precious lives than you had let live,")
The bridge, I think, is talking to the president directly. "For shame on you, who cares about me anyway?" (Who cares about the life of one soldier in the scheme of things, certainly not the president who only wants MORE people)
"I don't mind you" probably meaning the soldier doesn't personally dislike the president, just what he's doing
"It'd mean so much if you'd just save me, save me" In other words, get me the holy hell out of here before I die.
I dunno if anyone else sees this or not, but once I've seen it I can't unsee it, so it's the meaning I'm stuck with. I don't know if it fits perfectly, but it makes sense to me.
I'm not using this as an excuse to go into a politcal rant either, this is just what I honestly swear to god this song says to me.